[NEWS] Some Monday links

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• Al Jazeera notes Syrian refugee resettlement in Germany, the cultural importance of jewelry design to the Navajo, the complicated ethics of separatism in South Yemen, concerns over the Islamic State in the Arab Gulf and in the North Caucasus, a massacre of Christians by Somali militias in northern Kenya, the localization of Google in Irish, and a surprise visit by Crimea's leader to India as part of a Russian delegation.


• Bloomberg notes Ukrainian corruption, Polish hostility to a British bid to limit EU migration, the interest of English councils in getting some of the powers Scotland will acquire, and the surge of immigrants to Germany.


• Bloomberg View notes that a post-Putin Russia could be even worse.


• Open Democracy looks at the declining importance of Israel as an enemy to the Arab world, questions the extent of Russian support for the European far right, notes the insertion of Orthodox Christianity into public teaching in Russia, and notes the failures of political Islam in Tunisia.